Executive Summary
Magil Construction, a unit of Fayonne Ltd., is leading foundational development for the PowerCo EV battery plant in St. Thomas, Ontario, a massive $7-billion manufacturing hub. The expansive 140-hectare site spans roughly 850,000 square feet across three initial buildings with rigorous jobsite management requirements.
A primary challenge for gigawatt-scale infrastructure projects is safely managing hundreds of worker and transport checks daily across dozens of subcontractors. Infrastructure facilities must also protect highly confidential blueprints and technology layout. Worker identity and orientation must be reliable yet fast. Paper-based entry gates waste 8 to 12 minutes on average.
Magil chose Safe Site Check In’s incredibly easy-to-use, mobile-first, digital check-in platform to meet these challenges. Engineered to secure mission-critical jobsites from day one, SSCI features lightning-fast deployment, requires no apps to install and no user licenses to manage.
Safe Site Check In generates durable, highly visible QR code stations at jobsite entry points scanned using workers’ mobile devices. Subcontractor crews can be batch loaded and digital credentialing ensures only certified workers can access high-risk zones. After safety orientation, digital badges allow gate guards to scan in workers just like when you board an airplane.
Safe Site Check In reduced validation processing down to 2 to 3 minutes. Ultimately, Safe Site Check In delivered real-time field telemetry, giving project supervisors complete awareness over active field headcounts, subcontractor numbers, and critical delivery progressions across all structures, while keeping safety and risk awareness top of mind.
After dealing with old-fashioned, manual tracking methods for the first 15 years of my career, Safe Site Check In is a breath of fresh air. It eliminates tedious data entry and human error by populating our database electronically and in real time. Our subcontractor crews adopted it instantly. Scanning a custom QR badge is a simple, seamless process that saves our team valuable administrative hours every week.
About Magil Construction
Magil Construction is a Canadian contractor handling foundations for major buildings at the PowerCo (a subsidiary of Volkswagen Group) EV battery plant. Located in St. Thomas, Ontario, this gigafactory is capable of producing up to 90 gigawatt hours (GWh) of batteries annually. The sprawling facility will eventually house six distinct production blocks, making it the largest manufacturing investment in Canadian history.
Challenge
- Safely manage upwards of hundreds of worker and transport checks daily without triggering boundary blockages.
- Protect highly confidential structural blueprints, network topologies, and sensitive technology layouts from design theft and corporate espionage.
- Eliminate the use of hand-written registration sheets that yield incomplete name fields, unreadable handwriting, and missing checkout timestamps.
- Overcome manual security checkpoints that consume 8 to 12 minutes per inbound transport unit.
Solution
- Implement Safe Site Check In’s secure cloud-based jobsite management system via highly visible QR code stations.
- Deploy an incredibly easy-to-use, mobile-first digital check-in platform that requires no apps to install.
- Configure virtual site layouts and map dedicated access rules based on actual facility blueprints.
- Utilize device-bound identity validation to eliminate badge pass-back routines and worker credential sharing across sensitive zones.
Results
- Reduced inbound processing time to 2 to 3 minutes total processing time, maximizing schedule flow.
- Streamlined real-time field telemetry directly to a central cloud dashboard. Project supervisors maintain complete, real-time awareness over active field headcounts, contractor numbers, and critical delivery progressions across all structures.
- Shielded oversized, multi-million dollar engineering systems from theft vectors by auto-capturing timestamps to form a verifiable database for insurance compliance.
- Replaced hand-written manifests with a secure, cloud-managed database capturing immediate verified terminal events.
Our Safe Site Check In web app can Make Jobsite Management Easy®. SSCI automates check-in with safety screening, badging, onboarding and daily log creation. Our solution has been used on thousands of sites for millions of screenings in construction and other industrial worksites by thousands of employees and visitors every day. Used worldwide, built and supported in the USA.
